11 Reasons to Explore Islam

Within Islam it is both legitimate and right to ask the question: “Why Islam?” Every tenet in Islam is subject to analysis and contention. No other religion is willing to subject its basic fundamentals of faith to such questioning. For example, Saint Thomas Aquinas, the most rational of Christian theologians, stopped the use of reason when it came to the basic fundamentals of Christian faith. He then tried to justify faith. So to ask “why Christianity?” is an illegitimate question. However, Allah invites the question as to “why Islam?”.

[My Log – 5] Whale of a Sale

I feel I am trivializing it by putting it this way, but that is the image that comes to mind. And it is not even apt or appropriate, really.

But when I see people falling over themselves, and not even minding if they trample each other, to get to their coveted bargains in all these sales, I say: All right, here is another sale for all you sale lovers of the world. […]

You Must Read That Book!

I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what or where you are. And I have no idea what you do or don’t do. But regardless of all that, I would still like you to read that book – the most amazing and incomparable Al-Qur’an!

For, there is no other book quite like that book in the world! There never was, and there never will be. Not to belittle, disparage or put any other book down. But simply to tell you that this is a book you owe it to yourself to read.

This book – I mean that book – is quite unlike any other book you may have read. […]

Drive-by Experts on Islam

These days, they are all experts: on Islam and Muslims I mean. And in as many cases as not, instant experts, I must point out.

Drive-by Experts is what I call this crop of instant cognoscenti that flood the market – and the airwaves – and the media in general – in these troubled times. Those in policy portals are somewhat different. Often, many of them know their stuff even though they may choose to twist truth to fit policy parameters and political agendas.

And the factors that breed this mushroom cloud of Drive-by Experts on Islam and Muslims are many. Not the least among them is the money that can be made by a claim to expertise on Islam, no matter how tenuous or precarious. And the perks and privileges that go with it.

There is name, fame and fortune to be made by saying you are an Islamic Expert and then letting loose on Islam and Muslims, left, right and center. Poor Muslims – barring the blackguards and charlatans among them – wouldn’t know what hit them or how to respond to this onslaught in a truly meaningful, effective, civilized, rational and peaceful way. And if they did make some noises of the legitimate and appropriate variety, no one will pay any attention to them anyway.

But it is good that fewer and fewer buses seem to suffer the wrath of angry and frustrated Muslim mobs in parts of Islamistan. The fury seems to be headed for the jugular now as evidently angry and frustrated agents of powerful money and politics – both domestic and foreign – have developed more of a penchant for blown up bodies than for burned buses. […]

Reflections on Islam

Contents:

  1. Islam Is from God
  2. Islam Is Working of God’s Will in the Universe
  3. Islam Is a Message from God to Humans
  4. A Man Called Muhammad, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam
  5. A Near-Perfect Generation
  6. A Message of Liberty and Equality
  7. Kindness and Respect
  8. Control Your Destiny
  9. A Book Called the Qur’an
  10. A Mother Source of All Divine Teachings
  11. Qur’an: A Miraculous Blueprint for World Progress
  12. It Is God Who Keeps the Qur’an Going
  13. A Miracle Called the Sunnah
  14. The Miracle of Hadith
  15. A People Called the Ummat
  16. Islam Lives On

Continuity and Change in Islam

Contents:

  1. Boundaries Define Things and Give Them Character
  2. A Perfect Revolution for Basic Human Freedoms
  3. Islam’s Gift of Fundamental Human Rights and Freedoms
  4. Ability to Speak and Express Oneself: Essence of Human Life on Earth
  5. Islam: A Foundation for Peace on Earth
  6. God’s Boundaries Save Lives
  7. Moderation, Thy Name Is Islam: How Islam Nips Totalitarian Tendencies in the Bud
  8. Islam Is Not Guesswork: It Is Direct Divine Revelation
  9. Islam: A System Rooted in Original Divine Text
  10. Islamic “Reformation”: Colonialism in a New Garb
  11. Protestant Reformation: A Partial Islamization of Christianity
  12. Another Miracle: Islam Is Dynamic and Resilient
  13. A World Made in the Image of Islam
  14. Islam’s Constancy in the Face of Change
  15. World Adopts Islamic Teachings and Practices, But Gives Islam or Muslims No Credit
  16. Recalling the Handwashing Discovery by ASM in Mid-1990s
  17. Islam Is a “Path,” Not a Desert Expanse or a Jungle Bush
  18. Path Means Boundedness and Directionality
  19. King Henry VIII of England Starts a New Religion to Marry a New Wife
  20. There Is No Such Thing as “Halaal” Beer in Islam
  21. Islam Rolls with the Punches and Rises up Strong Every Time
  22. Will Some Muslims Misbehave? Surely They Will!
  23. God Almighty’s Commitment to Protect Islam

Muslims’ Abuse of Islamic Culture

Contents:

  1. Desecration of a Time-Honored Title Called Imam
  2. Legends of Learning
  3. Imams of Yore:
  4. Muslims of Pre-Partition India
  5. “Middle East”:
  6. Many Easts and Many Wests
  7. Muslims Are a Blessed People
  8. Western Wing of the Muslim Ummah
  9. Muslim Behavior and Divine Retribution
  10. Judgment Day – Right Here in this World
  11. Assault on Islamic History, Culture and Tradition
  12. Some Other Abominations of Language and Culture
  13. Time to Repent
  14. An Outrage on the Principle of Human Equality
  15. No Holy Humans, Only a Fistful of Dust
  16. Message to Muslims

What God Do Muslims Worship?

What God do Muslims worship?

That was the question – asked a while ago by some people in the Western world.

The media played it up. As is the media’s wont to play such things up.

And yet the question is really a timeless one. And none other than God Almighty himself taught and prepared the Muslims – over centuries and millennia – to be able to answer that question in any age, culture or context.

And I provide that answer here in four parts using as my reference nothing but the pure and preserved word of God Almighty in the text of the Qur’an.

Published Books

Library Catalog

Please request free copies of our books and booklets for your family, friends and local libraries today! Send us your correct address and contact information and a brief introduction who and where you are and what you do. And we will be happy to try and send you our literature free of cost.

Booklets